Finding points of common ground on Jan. 6 with the White House

The U.S. competitive advantage in space depends on infrastructure hosted by allies.

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A Review of Daniel Silverman, “Seeing Is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better” (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Legal statecraft moves beyond lawfare, giving the U.S. a strategic instrument to shape the environment instead of playing defense.

Any attempt to authorize domestic military deployments by designating fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction rests on absurd legal theories.

Without clear definitions, commanders risk issuing unlawful orders, and troops risk obeying them.

The U.K. government’s latest attempt to access encrypted cloud backups could allow adversarial actors to gain access to sensitive data.

From extraterritorial arrest to head-of-state immunity, his case will test long-standing doctrines.

Recent U.S. actions in Venezuela underscore the president’s broad authority to use military force. But threats of a “second wave” may still run up against its limits.

Judge Paula Xinis’s opinion last month in the Abrego Garcia case is worth a deeper read.

A dispatch from the Jan. 5 hearing in the Southern District of New York.